Quote Originally Posted by DUMBO View Post
re-do your math. corporations also receive public goods from tax revenues. better yet, re-calculate according to the proportion of benefits from public expenditure and said beneficiaries.
redo my math? I divided the total tax revenue by the total number of people in the country. I'm an accountant. Math is not a problem for me. Corporations are made up of people, so I didn't exclude them. Most of the public expenditures and social services go to lower class people, not to corporations. The facts that corporations are actually owned by people sort of cancels that out, does it not? I divide total tax revenue by total people (including human shareholders who own corporations).

My point is that if you want EQUALITY you should pay your equal fucking share. Mr. Bad Evil corporate CEO is paying your share for you, which you are ungrateful for. The rich people do not get nearly as much benefit from the entitlement and welfare/social programs and public good funds. You are wrong. Most of the public goods are used to benefit minorities and people below a certain income level. So the rich people are paying your share of the taxes while you reap most of the benefits.

We have child labor laws in America. If you don't like the fact that child labor is happening in other countries, go complain to those other countries. I vote in politicians that are against child labor. I'm not guilty of anything that you aren't guilty of when it comes to buying import products. What do you want us to do Visionz? Shut off our borders and disallow imports? Communists import products too. Hell, communists even import products FROM capitalists!!! Stalin was importing good ol' American steel and American military equipment such as trucks, tanks, planes, etc. Child labor is not a problem that is isolated or distinct to capitalism. If you think child labor will go away when you rid the world of capitalism, I'm contesting that you are mistaken.

Please give examples and proof of American corporations proven to be using child labor in other countries so that I can begin boycotting them thanks to our capitalist free market system that lets me voluntarily decide who I purchase from. So far you've only made indirect and vague accusations.

I wonder if any of you on this forum will be singing a different tune if you ever become very successful and realize first hand what it is like to pay 35% of your income versus the 10% or 15% that you pay now. My point is that we already punish the wealthy people with a progressive tax system. But people like to forget about that. It's a lot more fun to just point the finger and pretend that successful businessmen are just evil evil very very bad people. Even if rich people were taxed at the same percentage rate as you, it is still multiplied by a higher income. But a higher percentage AND a higher income means A LOT more tax than you pay. Why should someone else pay tens of thousands more in tax than I do when they actually receive LESS in social benefits and are completely ineligible for a large portion of them?

Basically, if we were to EQUALIZE everything in this country, your standard of living would be even lower because you wouldn't even be able to afford your EQUAL portion of taxes to the federal government let alone your state and county and municipal government taxes as well. Put your head in the sand if you don't want to acknowledge that fact. Face it, we live in a very watered down Socialist form of capitalism in America that is actually working to your benefit if you make less than say $32,550 for people filing single.